Stephen King Quotes

I'm a slow reader, but I usually get through seventy or eighty books a year, most fiction. I don't read in order to study the craft; I read because I like to read

Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

Running a close second [as a writing lesson] was the realization that stopping a piece of work just because it's hard, either emotionally or imaginatively, is a bad idea. Sometimes you have to go on when you don't feel like it, and sometimes you're doing good work when it feels like all you're managing is to shovel shit from a sitting position.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

We're here to fuck shit up

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common....

What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.

I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

never's the word God listens for when he needs a laugh.

Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.

I don't like people. They fuck me up.